FORTRAN is an acronym for FORmula TRANslator, the first high-level programming language. FORTRAN was developed by John Backus and colleagues at the IBM Corporation beginning in 1954. The first issue of FORTRAN was in 1957. FORTRAN version 66 was the...

Fortran (previously FORTRAN[1]) is a general-purpose[2], procedural,[3] imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering...

For a three-year period in 1954-57, John Backus, a mathematician in his early thirties, led the IBM Fortran project. Fortran was a new programming language that enabled programs to be written compactly in English and mathematical symbols instead of the binary- oriented machine language...

BRIAN BERGSTEIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-21-2007 John Backus, at 82; inventor of Fortran By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 03-21-2007, Wednesday Section: LOCAL Edtion: All Editions Biographical: John Backus John Backus, whose development of the...

One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to a woman Wednesday for the first time in the award's 40-year history.Frances E. Allen, 75, was honored for her work at IBM Corp. on techniques for optimizing the performance of compilers,...

John BackusJohn Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, died Saturday. He was 82.Backus died in Ashland, Ore., according to IBM Corp., where he spent his career.Prior to...